Tag: my life
re: The Magicians
by levgrossman on Aug.29, 2009, under Lev Grossman
Doubting fence-sitters? What? I say we shoot one in ten. Pour encourager les autres.
Here’s the thing about The Magicians. I grew up reading the Narnia books. Also Tolkien, Piers Anthony, Ursula Le Guin, Anne McAffrey, Fritz Leiber, TH White, Norton Juster, etc. etc. etc. Just like you did. And when I was a kid I thought my life was actually going to be like that: exciting, heroic, epic, happy. Etc. etc.
Then I grew up. I kept on reading those books — well, not Piers Anthony, but the ones that held up. But funnily enough my life — spoiler alert! — was not like that. (continue reading…)
